Sher Fick – Artist/Independent Curator

1023 St. Hubbins Drive, Spring Hill, TN 37174 – 615-975-1025 (cell) sherart1861@aol.com

www.sherfickart.typepad.com

CURATORIAL RESUME

INCENDIARY, A Political Invitational Exhibition celebrating freedom of speech – Sculpture, Painting, Photography & Installation Works – October, November 2008, Middle Tennessee, USA – 51 works including suspended installation of entire gallery. www.sherfickart.typepad.com for prospectus information or www.artcalendar.com

EARTHworks, An Invitational Exhibition – in correlation with National Land Association Conference, Nashville, TN, October 2006. Guest Curator, Crystalwood Gallery.

FLUX, Primary Organizer, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Spring 2006.

PUBLIC ACCESS I & II, Cope Administration Building, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. Fall 2005 and Spring 2006.

SPIRITUAL MEMORY. Sprint Theatre Gallery. Niceville, FL. Spring 2003.

NEW FACES – SEMINAL - REGIONAL REFLECTIONS - TREASURE TROVE, Quarterly Exhibitions, New Endeavors Art Gallery, Destin, FL 2000-2002, Gallery Director.

FOR THE PUBLIC, Art Film Series at Art Center Galleries. Niceville, FL, 1998

15 monthly exhibitions of traveling exhibitions, juried exhibitions, guest artists, and membership exhibitions, FORT WALTON BEACH ART MUSEUM, Curator, 1999-2001.

1997 ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION, Art Center Galleries, Niceville, FL.

Assistant to Gallery Director, Art Center Galleries, Niceville, Fl, 1997 - 2001

Contact: Sher Fick, Artist sherart1861@aol.com ; 1023 St. Hubbins Drive, Spring Hill, TN 37174; cell 615-975-1025 Headshot: Photo Credit: Rhonda Schaeffer of Niceville, FL Around Town Photography, copyright. Links: www.sherfickart.typepad.com - artist's art blog http://perambulating.blogspot.com/ - art review by David Maddox, Nashville Scene http://www.commercial-news.com/local/local_story_313210623.html - "Artist's Hard Work Pays Off", article on artist, Danville Commercial News by Staff Writer Barbara Greenberg http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=2287 - juried showcase of visual artists Other numerous links are available on artist's blog for additional online art venues. Art Info:

Midwest, 1967 - currently residing in rural Tennessee, United States

Sher Fick holds a BFA Painting/Sculpture (2006) from Middle Tennessee State University and has studied at the Santa Fe College of Art and The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. While living in the Florida Panhandle, Fick was nominated for the Cox/Bravo Channels Champion for the Arts Award. Fick's work explores personal and cultural archeology. Motifs include childhood remnants and found objects, safety pins and disassembled doll parts. Many artworks explore the origins of nursery rhymes, fairytales, and childhood treasures. Materials utilized include mixed media assemblages with encaustic, altered garments, and fiber constructions. Recently Fick has taken her creations to new heights in the creation of outdoor installations. Art Critic David Maddox found Fick's work "dealing with childhood and domestic matters handled in . . . a pleasurably lively manner and that the materials were arranged in a . . . ceremonial and ritualistic way". (http://perambulating.blogspot.com/, April 2006).

Specific to Rapunzel's Tower:

Fick has interned and subsequently worked for Installation Artist Adrienne Outlaw at her Nashville studio. Fick continues Outlaw's art advocacy by extending opportunities to new, emerging artists. For Cheekwood Art & Garden's 2008 Happily Ever After exhibition, she has hired two former studio mates from MTSU to create the portrait panels for Rapunzel's Tower- Denise Johnson will create an image of the Enchantress and Selena Long will create images of the King/Queen (Rapunzel's erstwhile parents).

As a former elementary art teacher, Fick especially enjoys creating art specifically for children. Rapunzel's Tower will include: rock climbing wall with rappelling rope (Rapunzel's Braid), silly mirrors, discovery panels, and a letter search for the letters spelling out Rapunzel's name. Each aspect has been chosen to cover the imagination of children of all ages: from infant to the adult-young-at-heart.

Image:

Sher Fick at a Nashville Untitled Exhibition, October 2005.

Photo Credit: Julie Anderson of Made-Up Media, Waleska, GA.